THE SANNER MODEL — APPLIED TO A FOUR-BODY SYSTEM

Abstract

This paper applies The Sanner Model to a four-body system — the Galactic Center, the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. Each mass acts as a sink for the aether, producing its own radial, inward aether acceleration field. The paper distinguishes sharply between two properties of the combined field: aether acceleration, which determines the normal force and therefore what we feel as contact with a surface, and aether velocity, which determines the Lorentz factor and therefore clock rates and length contraction. The total aether acceleration at any point on Earth's surface is the vector sum of all four contributions, dominated by the Earth at 9.8 m/s². The total aether velocity is likewise a vector sum, dominated by the Galactic flow at approximately 323 km/s, with the Sun, Moon, Earth, and the observer's orbital and rotational motion adding smaller components. From this vector framework the model predicts three periodic signals in clock rates: a seasonal variation of approximately 19 ms/day driven by Earth's orbital velocity modulating the Galactic aether flow, a daily variation of approximately 1 μs/day at the equator (zero at the poles) driven by Earth's rotation, and a lunar modulation of approximately 0.1 μs/day driven by the Moon's orbital motion. The differential aether acceleration across Earth's diameter also reproduces the observed tidal effect from the Moon and Sun. The seasonal signal is large enough that it should already be visible in pulsar timing data; a null result would falsify the prediction. All three signals are testable with existing data from atomic clocks, GPS satellites, and pulsar timing arrays.Version 4.0 has clearer definitions and language according to the model.